On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
> (rewrite response for the list, didn't see the authors Cc: to the list
> so only responded to him)
>
> Paul Wouters <paul@xtdnet.nl> wrote:
>
> > I am probably missing something here. Why would you built something to
> > split up requests like this when it's a thousandfold easier to just do
> > some round robin DNS to divide the load? If NFS mounted disks on the
> > servers is too slow, i am sure some smart mirroring ultrawide scsi
> > with a fast network setup could fix that too.
>
> so far: every webserver needs to have access to all files. if it's
> split, a server only needs access to some files. files are on file
> servers. so far: every webserver connected to every fileserver. after
> split: less 'competition' per wire.
>
> They didn't say they wanted to do it like this 100% and over, it was
> an IDEA that they would have liked to test.
>
>
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